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New Delhi: Beginning this week is our regular 'App Review' series, in which we will try to bring you an in-depth analysis of popular and the not-so-popular smartphone apps to enable you to make an informed choice before buying or downloading them.
This week it is a photo-editing app,...

New Delhi: Editors' Guild paid glowing tributes to Vinod Mehta, veteran journalist and its former President, who passed away on Sunday. The media world has lost a "liberal, independent voice and the world of public discourse in India, a reflective contributor who spoke his mind without rancour or fear," it...

Chennai: National award-winning film editor T.E Kishore, who was undergoing treatment for a brain stroke, breathed his last on Friday at a hospital here, said a family source.
Kishore was 36 and died at the Vijaya Hospital. He is survived by his parents.
"Kishore was hospitalised few days ago after he suffered...

New Delhi: Citing restricted access to ministers and bureaucrats, the Editors Guild of India on Tuesday asked the Modi government to "enlarge access and engage more actively" with the journalists.
"By delaying the establishment of a media inter-face in the Prime Minister's Office, in restricting access...

San Francisco: Apple Inc has invited top fashion editors and bloggers in unprecedented numbers to its Tuesday launch gala, further evidence that the iPhone maker is preparing to take the wraps off a smartwatch.
Apple is forging closer ties to the fashion world as it plots its foray into the fertile...

New Delhi: EditorinChief at NewsX news channel Jehangir Pocha passed away early on Saturday morning following a cardiac arrest. His last rites will be performed at 6:15 pm on Saturday at Nigam Bodh Ghat (CNG crematorium area).
Jehangir was a former Editor of Businessworld and former China correspondent for the Boston...

Harare: The editor of a Zimbabwean stateowned newspaper appeared in court on Saturday on charges of subversion and undermining the authority of President Robert Mugabe.
Edmund Kudzayi, editor of the Sunday Mail, was not asked to plead and was remanded in custody until a bail hearing on Monday.
The charges...

The New York Times Co on Wednesday abruptly ousted the newspaper's top editor, Jill Abramson, after less than three years in the job and named managing editor Dean Baquet to replace her.
Baquet, 57, a Pulitzer prizewinning reporter and former editor of the Los Angeles Times, becomes the paper's first AfricanAmerican...

New Delhi: The top journalists in the country have expressed serious displeasure over Aam Aadmi Party chief Arvind Kejriwal's statement against the media. Veteran journalist and former secretary general of the Editors Guild of India KS Sachidanandamurthy has questioned the AAP over its statement.
Speaking to CNN-IBN he said, "The...

Mumbai: Home Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde on Tuesday clarified his remarks on crushing the elements of media for spreading false propaganda against the Congress. Shinde said, "My comments were on social media. It was with regards to the issue related to the Northeast students who were being targeted in Hyderabad...

The Editors Guild of India has issued a notice to Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party for the statements made against media. While launching his party's Lok Sabha campaign on Sunday, Kejriwal alleged that there was a nexus between media organisations and some industrialists.
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New Delhi: The Editors Guild of India has issued a notice to Arvind Kejriwal-led Aam Aadmi Party for the statements made against media.
"It is ironic that those figures who built their reputations through media are now turning against it," it said.
The notice reads, "It is equally disquieting to find...

Panaji: Almost three months after a woman journalist working in Tehelka accused its EditorinChief Tarun Tejpal of sexually assaulting her, he was on Monday charged with rape by Goa Police.
Tejpal has also been slapped with charges of sexual harassment and outraging the modesty of a woman. Police reportedly filed the...

Panaji: Goa police will on Monday file charge sheet against Tehelka foundereditor Tarun Tejpal who was accused of sexually assaulting his woman colleague during the 'Think Fest'.
The charge sheet would be filed before Principal Additional Sessions court judge Anuja Prabhudesai, sources said.
Tejpal (50) has been accused of raping the woman...

Panaji: Tehelka founder editor Tarun Tejpal's custody in the sexual assault case ends on Monday.
Tejpal had applied for bail to the Goa bench of the Bombay High Court. The plea is slated for hearing this week.
It is also expected that the Goa Police will file a charge sheet in the...

New Delhi: The Broadcast Editors' Association has objected to Gujrata Chief Minister Narendra Modi's comments against Indian journalists at Sunday's rally in Delhi. Modi said the journalists in New York should have slammed Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's alleged statement in which he purportedly called India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh...

New Delhi: Self-styled godman Asaram's supporters on Saturday launched an attack on CNN-IBN sister concern IBN7's reporter Bhawani Deora. An IBN7 video journalist has also been injured in the attack.
Information and Broadcasting Minister Manish Tewari condemned the incident and urged the Rajasthan government to take strict action in the matter...

Senior Editor and CJ show host Anubha Bhonsle fills in Rajdeep's shoes as she takes viewers questions that came in related to the Uttarakhand coverage. Earlier in the week, she was in Uttarakhand to report on the events that unfolded after the devastating floods.
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New Delhi: Namrata Rao is very overwhelmed to win the National Award for the best editor for 'Kahaani'.
"I am very glad. It is very overwhelming. This is for the first time I have ever got a National Award. It is a great feeling I can't put in words. All I...

Bangkok: A Thai magazine editor was jailed for 10 years on Wednesday for insulting the royal family under the country's draconian lesemajeste law, a sentence that drew condemnation from international rights groups and the European Union. Somyot Prueksakasemsuk, editor of "Voice of the Oppressed", a magazine devoted to selfexiled former...

New Delhi: Zee News editor Sudhir Chaudhary, facing notice from police to join probe after the channel aired the interview of December 16 gangrape victim's male friend, on January 5 moved a Delhi court pleading that his statement to the police be video recorded.
Without specially mentioning in its order if...

London: A previously unpublished photo of Princess Diana as a teenager is set to go under the hammer. This picture of the Princess of Wales was given to a newspaper a day after she and Prince Charles announced their engagement.
Editors had decided not to use the picture and even stamped...

Thane: Bollywood actor Nana Patekar today slammed the concept of 'Lifetime Achievement Awards', saying that people make beneficial contributions to the society and merit such honours.
The actor confirmed that he would never accept one.
"Anybody and everybody gets up and forms any organisation and institutes a Lifetime Achievement Award...

New Delhi: Zee News chief Subhash Chandra on Wednesday appeared before Delhi Police in connection with the case of alleged Rs 100 crore extortion bid by his two editors, to "clarify" certain issues raised by investigators. After the 30minute meeting, Chandra told reporters that he voluntarily came and police had...

New Delhi: Arrested Zee editors Sudhir Chaudhary and Samir Ahluwalia were on Monday granted bail by a Delhi court in the Jindal Group extortion case. Chaudhary and Ahluwalia were granted the bail in the alleged Rs 100 crore extortion case on a bond of Rs 50,000.
Confirming the bail to the...

New Delhi: In the latest development in the Zee vs Jindal extortion case, the liedetector tests will not be conducted on arrested Zee editors Sameer Ahluwalia and Sudhir Chaudhary. With regard to Zee chairman Subhash Chandra, the court asked him to consult his doctors and then arrive at a decision...